Using the Annotations reader class

You can retrieve the backport175 annotations as well as regular Java 5 annotations (when running Java 5) at runtime using the API in the Annotations class.

You retreive the annotations by specifying the:

name of the annotations - this must be the fully qualified name of the annotation interface.

class or member that is annotated - this is the java.lang.Class (for class level annotations) or one of the member class in the java.lang.reflect.* package for member level annotations (methods, fields and constructors)